Carolina Yard Gardening School!

If you live in the Lowcountry of South Carolina mark your calenders and register today. The Carolina Yard Gardening School promises to be full of hands-on activities that you are going to love!

What: Carolina Yard Gardening School
When: March 24, 2012 8AM-4:30PM
Where: Charleston Exchange Park- Ladson, SC
Cost: $75 (includes lunch)

Join Clemson Extension and the Tri-County Master Gardeners for this one day hands-on intensive horticulture workshop for area gardeners featuring some of the area's most knowledgeable gardeners!  The CYGS includes:

• two garden lectures
• two hands-on workshops
• 1 soil test
• lunch and refreshments
• educational exhibits
• plant problem diagnosis clinic
• chance to win a door prize
• books and plants for sale on site
• complimentary compost

Lectures to choose from include: (Download the full brochure)

• You Can Do It. . . Easy Lawn Care
• Daylilies 101
• Amanda’s Favorite Landscape Plants
• Getting Started with Culinary Herbs in the Lowcountry
• Treasured Terrariums and Creative Containers
• Leaf Casting
• Simple, Successful Seed Starting
• Hands-on Plant Propagation
• What is a Romantic Garden? The Design and History of Magnolia Gardens
• Celebrating South Carolina’s Natural Heritage with Native Plants in the Home Landscape
• Tips for Tomatoes
• Composting at Home: The Dirty Little Secret of a Great Garden
• Success with Perennials in the Lowcountry

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 As the White House's organic gardener, Casey Calhoun is up to her elbows in dirt. But when someone starts tampering with the Presidential vegetable garden, embarrassing the First lady-and a hard-nosed investigative reporter is found dead, Casey realizes that the next thing buried in the dirt might just be her...